How to format your references using the Journal of Wood Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Wood Science. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Wootton JT (2005) Field parameterization and experimental test of the neutral theory of biodiversity. Nature 433:309–312

A journal article with 2 authors

Weaver AJ, Zwiers FW (2000) Uncertainty in climate change. Nature 407:571–572

A journal article with 3 authors

Choi W-Y, Giraldez AJ, Schier AF (2007) Target protectors reveal dampening and balancing of Nodal agonist and antagonist by miR-430. Science 318:271–274

A journal article with 5 or more authors

d’Adda di Fagagna F, Reaper PM, Clay-Farrace L, et al (2003) A DNA damage checkpoint response in telomere-initiated senescence. Nature 426:194–198

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Corsi P, Dulieu M (2013) The Marketing of Technology Intensive Products and Services. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Cazenave T, Costa D, Lopes O, et al (2006) Contributions to Nonlinear Analysis: A Tribute to D.G. de Figueiredo on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday. Birkhäuser, Basel

A chapter in an edited book

Briggs M, Bodner G (2005) A Model of Molecular Visualization. In: Gilbert JK (ed) Visualization in Science Education. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 61–72

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Wood Science.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Researchers Reveal The First Warm-Blooded Fish. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-reveal-first-warm-blooded-fish/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1996) Social Security: Telephone Access Enhanced at Field Offices Under Demonstration Project. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Smith BL (2017) A Qualitative Study of Veteran Students’ Perspectives of Their Academic Experiences. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Wagner J (2017) Syndergaard Rethinks Training: Fewer Weights, More Flexibility. New York Times SP8

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Wood Science
Abbreviation	J. Wood Sci.
ISSN (print)	1435-0211
ISSN (online)	1611-4663
Scope	Biomaterials